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Originally Posted by Slava
If he wanted it gone why not table the legislation and declare it a confidence matter? He could've received the election he wanted, without going against his own law? I don't think that D.A. is the one grasping in this situation...
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Good question. I figured if he wanted an election, he would have tabled something the opposition would freak out about, like the Gun Registry... or more ominous, something environment related. My guess is its optics. By throwing his hands up and saying the government doesn't work anymore, it gives the opposition less ammunition than by giving them something to shoot down and defend their collapsing of government as protecting Canada from Stephen Harper's "evil hidden agenda." This way he can say he got a lot of what he wanted done, but the opposition made it difficult to do much else.
The downside are the people who point at the election timing law, even though they aren't applicable to a minority, the negative optics are there.